Reflection of Digitial Writing

• What did you learn about yourself as a writer?

Through this blogging I have learned a few things about myself as a writer. To commence, I have learned that their is always room for improvement in regards to grammar and punctuation skills and advance vocabulary and sentence structure. I have also learned that I tend to type fast without looking and so it very vital that I also go back and read my writing but more than like I have spelling or word errors throughout. 

• What did you learn about digital writing? 

I learned that digital writing is a great way to get fast feedback on my writing from teachers and class,mates. It is also a great way to express quickly express your thoughts and hide your face if you'd like by writing anonymous. 

• What lessons can you take to classroom or share with future teachers about integrating blogging into instruction?

I believe blogging is a great thing to integrate in the classroom. Like mentioned above, it is a great way for teachers to quickly provide feedback and comments to student work. Additionally, it is a way to track student progress and growth by having an online collection of their writing. 

• Challenges?

The main challenge I faced was providing genuine feedback and comments to others. At times, it can be a bit difficult or challenging to give thoughtful comments that are not perceived as fake simply because  we must respond.

• Successes?

The main success I had while blogging was being able to freely express my thought and the things on my mind. I do not write very often on my own. However, this blogging assignment pushed me to write more for pleasure. 

Digitial Writing Workshop

I knew from the beginning that I wanted to read this book. Technology is constantly growing and I think it is great to implement it in the classroom to teach. Throughout the semester I have learned a lot of fascinating tools that I definitely plan on using in the future such as Wordle, Padlet, wordpress and etc. However, this book opened up my eyes and revealed many more uses of digital technology and the importance and benefits it serves.

One section that the book focused on was blogging. I believe blogging is a great new writing notebook  and can be very benficial to keep an online collection of student writing and work. It is also a great and convenient way to get quick feedback from other classmates or teachers on your work. The book also went into detail on wikis and collaborative word processors and the pros and cons they each serve.

Other useful things discussed are photo essays with websites such as PhotoVoice, Podcast, video productions, digital portfolios, class anthologies, audio anthologies. One group discussion we had was on audio anthologies, as opposed to written anthologies. I have never thought of this until reading the book and it was definitely an AHA moment. I think it would be great to try an audio anthology in the future. Audio Anthologies allow students to literally share their voices. Traditionally, Hick states in the book "the process of writing a piece with the intention of recording it can change a writers perspective on how to punctuate, emphasize and otherwise engage the listener in ways that seeing his words on paper alone cannot." This really resonated with me and I really believe that listening to a p piece of work could make a big difference.